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I've been thinking about getting a rice cooker, partially 'cause it seems cool, partially because my girlfriend really likes rice, partially because it seems like rice can be a fairly healthy staple.

Eventually I stumbled across the Zojirushi NH-VBC18. Not only does it offer the ability to program rice (or porridge) to be done at a specific time, it also has a multitude of modes for cooking brown rice. (which is less common among rice cookers).

And it uses magnetic induction to cook with, which is cool. (and probably generates less heat for ones apartment too).

I gave in to the consumerism and ordered it. Here's to hoping I can use it to prepare a swath of healthy lunches and dinners.

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yeah, a lot of stainless steel stuff is pretty easy to find. rice cookers, pressure cookers, bread makers, and waffle irons are the ones i've had a lot of trouble with. rice and waffles are my favorite of those two subsets, hence looking harder for those. :)

teflon is being phased out all over the country, actually. dupont has to phase it out by, um, sometime within the next few years (i don't remember the exact time table). i imagine they will come up with some new nonstick thing that they claim is safer, though (not that they admit teflon isn't safe, even now).

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Mmm. Well, the programming on Blinkie's rice cooker (which is at our house) is pretty straightforward: Plug in cooker, pour in rice, pour in water, flip switch on cooker, wait 20 minutes, eat rice. That's about as open source as it gets. :)